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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Fig. 25, cast edge rails, 1802 ; 1 feet 6 inches long. Invented by Mr. 

 Wyatt, and used on the railway at the slate quarry at Lord Penrhyn's 

 estate, near Bangor, North Wales. The general shape of the cross-sec- 



Fig. 25. 

 Wyatt's Hexagonal Rail, Bangor, North Wales. (1802.) 



"{From model in the r. s. National Museum.) 



tion of this rail was a hexagon. At each end of the rail a dove- tail 

 block, 2 inches long, was cast at the bottom. This was slipped into a 

 chair, which had previously been attached by a bolt to the wooden or 

 stone support. 



Fig* 2(3, cast tram rail, 1803, " with flange higher in the middle and a 

 nib under the tread to add strength." Used on the Surrey Railway, 



5 EC ATM 



Fig. 26. 

 Tram Kail, Surrey Railway. U8O0.) 



(From model in the V. S. National Museum 



England. These rails had a rectangular notch, half square, in the ends, 

 the joints being completed by one square-headed iron spike, which was 

 counter-sunk. 



Fig." 27, cast rail with concave top, 1803. To be used also by road 

 wagons and to be imbedded in common roads. This rail, patented by 



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PERSPECTIVE V/EW 



BOTTOM VIEW 

 Fig. 27. 

 Woodhouse'b Patent Concave Rail for Wagons. 



From model in the U. S. National Museum.) 



Josiah Woodhouse, was fastened to transverse cross ties by bolts slipped 

 into slits through the base. 



Among the most interesting relics in the collection are two of the 

 cast tram rails, 3 feet long, from the track from Penydarreu Works to 

 Glamorgan, near Aberdare Junction, Wales. These rails were a por- 

 tion of the original track upon wdiich Trevithick's first locomotive, to 

 help man, ran in 1801, and was a gift of J. W. Widdowson, Esq., Lou- 

 don and Northwestern Railway of England, to the U. S. National 



